An 8x5 rectangle. If the bottom left corner is considered (0, 0), then two lines are drawn within the rectangle, from (0, 4) to (8, 1) and from (1, 5) to (7, 0). The smaller two regions of the four these lines cut the rectangle into are shaded. What is their combined area?

  • sin_free_for_00_days
    4·
    6 months ago

    I tried it just using the area of a kite, but ended up with sqrt(2)*sqrt(22.25) and got ~6.67 I made a mistake somewhere I guess.

    • zkfcfbzr@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      6·
      6 months ago

      The issue there is it isn’t a kite: The two longer sides don’t have equal length - they’re sqrt(73)/2 and sqrt(61)/2. So it’s a decent approximation but not quite exact.

      • Successful_Try543@feddit.de
        1·
        6 months ago

        One doesn’t really see this if the image is oriented like that. Rotating your phone or your head so that the vertical axis matches the long diagonal of the ‘kite’ makes this difference more obvious.